This greenhouse uses purple light to help plants grow healthier and faster.

published:26 Oct 2018

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As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment.
In good years, cargo trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains are a sign of money rolling in.
Today, as tariffs from America’s largest foreign soybean market -- China -- threaten to upend the industry, many trains sit idle.
“There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.”
In conversations with more than 50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each of the five food groups, one trend was clear: The once-deep ties to President Donald Trump have frayed over the past year. But they remain intact for a small majority of farmers CNN spoke with ahead of the critical 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, who see an opening with Trump’s trade war, will likely struggle to make inroads with these voters.
The President gives all of them plenty to complain about. They grumble about his tweeting -- that’s not their style -- and what his trade war has done to their bottom lines. But if the President’s re-election were held tomorrow, most of them would back him. They trust Trump, and many believe Democrats don’t understand or largely ignore their way of life.
Still, Trump’s deep support in rural America, which helped propel him to the White House in 2016, is being tested. The wheat farmers, soybean growers and pork producers confront a growing trade war that is forcing them to re-evaluate their ties to the President’s Republican Party and openly question whether his mantra to “Make America Great Again” came at the expense of voters like them.
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published:23 Oct 2018

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When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticide problem.
For years, pesticides used on black market and medical marijuana have affected water, wildlife, and consumer health. But until recently, the state had no way to prevent farmers from treating their crops with dangerous pesticides, fungicides or rodent killers. That’s all supposed to change with weed going legal, but growers, regulators and scientists say guaranteeing clean cannabis will be an uphill battle.
After a phase-in period of six months, which kicked off this week, any weed sold on California’s legal market has to test clean for residues of 66 pesticides — listed by the new Bureau of CannabisControl. Growers say they’re already being tested at such minute levels that even weed grown organically could fail these tests. One problem is pesticides that drift from farms, which don’t have to comply with the same strict rules.
“Other crops can use fungicides and pesticides. For weed, nothing is allowed because cannabis is still illegal under federal law,” Shawn Webber, a licensed grower in Sonoma County, told VICENews.
Scientists say regulators have forgotten to extend their strict standards to the labs themselves. “It’s zero tolerance for pesticides, but at what level,” said Reggie Gaudino, Chief Science Officer at Steep HillLabs, which offers cannabis testing in Berkeley, CA. “The regulations have no minimum standards for the machines that test the weed. People are going to shop around for the worst lab so they don’t fail.” And, as there aren’t enough labs to go around, product will spoil while it waits to be tested.
Growers who fail the tests or don’t want to invest in meeting the state’s rigorous standards, will likely return to black market. In other words, despite regulators’ best intentions, tainted weed won’t be off the menu just yet.
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Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale producers are worried about being weeded out of the industry, unless Ottawa and its provincial counterparts change their approach to so-called micro-cultivation.
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published:07 Jun 2018

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Farmers market lies exposed: hidden camera investigation. Is the produce you're buying at the farmers market grown locally? Marketplace goes on an undercover shopping trip and catches vendors lying about where their produce is grown.
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published:29 Sep 2017

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Warren Buffett is a billionaire -- and now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot. Big money getting into the business of weed could mean big things for the marijuana industry.
Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.
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Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in PresidentTrump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100U.S. goods — including soybeans, corn, and cotton — are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICENews the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many dollars of loss that is going to be this fall," Fricke said, pointing to the field where he'll plant his soybean crop over the next month.
"We still have to plant [the soybeans], but we just know we’re not gonna come out ahead," Fricke said.
Beyond a threatened trade war with China, farmers have been worried about Trump's other trade policies such as exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and renegotiating NAFTA, Fricke said.
“Agriculture sometimes is at odds with some of the economy in our country, so we knew that we were going to have to pay some price. We just don't want to pay the whole price,” he said.
But he remains a Trump supporter — for now. Fricke said he’s hoping Trump will listen to farmers and find a solution before the trade fight, and farmers’ fortunes, get worse.
"I just emailed the president and all our representatives today about, you know, let's be careful how we think about doing this, because we were already in a difficult situation in agriculture right now. We don't need it to be worse,” he said.
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Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling to brokers in South Africa for the past 44 years are now barred by new regulations from exporting their produce.
For more news, visit: sabcnews.com

published:27 Sep 2018

views:1300

Farmers in the American mid-west are working the fields this fall amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, once one of the largest importers of U.S. corn and soybeans. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, uncertainty looms over how it will ultimately affect farm income this year, as growers have yet to feel the full impact, or benefits, of the escalating trade dispute.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/4626920.html

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The National Sports Daily, simply referred to as The National, was a sports-centered newspaper published in the United States beginning on January 31, 1990. The newspaper was based in New York City, was printed tabloid format,
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The National was an American attempt to emulate the model of several international all-sports publications, such as La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy), L'Equipe (France), and others. The paper was founded by Mexican-American media mogul Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, who had owned Mexican television conglomerate Televisa and whose family had founded Univision. Azcárraga was also the chief financier for the paper and used the success of the international sports papers as his inspiration for founding The National.

Details of its launch were announced on 21 November, with further information given at a Scottish National Party (SNP) rally the following day. It was launched on a five-day trial basis against the backdrop of a general decline in newspaper sales, with an initial print-run of 60,000 copies for its first edition, but this was increased the following day as a result of public demand, and Newsquest decided to print it on a permanent basis after healthy sales continued throughout the first week. By January 2015, daily sales had fallen to below 20,000. The first front page carried a story about charities urging devolution of powers over welfare legislation to Scotland.

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The current editor is Frank Pine.

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The Daily News began life in 1911 as the Van Nuys Call, morphing into the Van Nuys News after a merger with a competing newspaper called the News. In 1953, the newspaper was renamed the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet. During this period, the newspaper was delivered four times a week for free to readers in 14 zoned editions in the San Fernando Valley.

In 1971, the newspaper was sold to the Tribune Company by the original family owners. In 1976, to de-emphasize the Van Nuys location, the paper changed its name to the Valley News and Green Sheet, and gradually converted from the four times a week operation to a daily newspaper with paid circulation. During this period, circulation increased to 210,000.

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From above: Green City Growers Greenhouse give off a purple light in the sky

From above: Green City Growers Greenhouse give off a purple light in the sky

From above: Green City Growers Greenhouse give off a purple light in the sky

This greenhouse uses purple light to help plants grow healthier and faster.

10:27

How Trump's trade wars hurt US farmers

How Trump's trade wars hurt US farmers

How Trump's trade wars hurt US farmers

As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment.
In good years, cargo trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains are a sign of money rolling in.
Today, as tariffs from America’s largest foreign soybean market -- China -- threaten to upend the industry, many trains sit idle.
“There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.”
In conversations with more than 50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each of the five food groups, one trend was clear: The once-deep ties to President Donald Trump have frayed over the past year. But they remain intact for a small majority of farmers CNN spoke with ahead of the critical 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, who see an opening with Trump’s trade war, will likely struggle to make inroads with these voters.
The President gives all of them plenty to complain about. They grumble about his tweeting -- that’s not their style -- and what his trade war has done to their bottom lines. But if the President’s re-election were held tomorrow, most of them would back him. They trust Trump, and many believe Democrats don’t understand or largely ignore their way of life.
Still, Trump’s deep support in rural America, which helped propel him to the White House in 2016, is being tested. The wheat farmers, soybean growers and pork producers confront a growing trade war that is forcing them to re-evaluate their ties to the President’s Republican Party and openly question whether his mantra to “Make America Great Again” came at the expense of voters like them.
Read more on CNN.com: https://cnn.it/2CxBkty
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Mkenna EwenNick ScottJeff Simon
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6:45

Will California Weed Growers Survive Legal Marijuana? (HBO)

Will California Weed Growers Survive Legal Marijuana? (HBO)

Will California Weed Growers Survive Legal Marijuana? (HBO)

When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticide problem.
For years, pesticides used on black market and medical marijuana have affected water, wildlife, and consumer health. But until recently, the state had no way to prevent farmers from treating their crops with dangerous pesticides, fungicides or rodent killers. That’s all supposed to change with weed going legal, but growers, regulators and scientists say guaranteeing clean cannabis will be an uphill battle.
After a phase-in period of six months, which kicked off this week, any weed sold on California’s legal market has to test clean for residues of 66 pesticides — listed by the new Bureau of CannabisControl. Growers say they’re already being tested at such minute levels that even weed grown organically could fail these tests. One problem is pesticides that drift from farms, which don’t have to comply with the same strict rules.
“Other crops can use fungicides and pesticides. For weed, nothing is allowed because cannabis is still illegal under federal law,” Shawn Webber, a licensed grower in Sonoma County, told VICENews.
Scientists say regulators have forgotten to extend their strict standards to the labs themselves. “It’s zero tolerance for pesticides, but at what level,” said Reggie Gaudino, Chief Science Officer at Steep HillLabs, which offers cannabis testing in Berkeley, CA. “The regulations have no minimum standards for the machines that test the weed. People are going to shop around for the worst lab so they don’t fail.” And, as there aren’t enough labs to go around, product will spoil while it waits to be tested.
Growers who fail the tests or don’t want to invest in meeting the state’s rigorous standards, will likely return to black market. In other words, despite regulators’ best intentions, tainted weed won’t be off the menu just yet.
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7:28

Marijuana growers at odds with proposed laws

Marijuana growers at odds with proposed laws

Marijuana growers at odds with proposed laws

Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale producers are worried about being weeded out of the industry, unless Ottawa and its provincial counterparts change their approach to so-called micro-cultivation.
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5:33

Big News For Weed Growers

Big News For Weed Growers

Big News For Weed Growers

Warren Buffett is a billionaire -- and now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot. Big money getting into the business of weed could mean big things for the marijuana industry.
Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.
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Important News for Mange Growers

Trump’s Feud With China Is Already Hurting American Farmers (HBO)

Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in PresidentTrump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100U.S. goods — including soybeans, corn, and cotton — are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICENews the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many dollars of loss that is going to be this fall," Fricke said, pointing to the field where he'll plant his soybean crop over the next month.
"We still have to plant [the soybeans], but we just know we’re not gonna come out ahead," Fricke said.
Beyond a threatened trade war with China, farmers have been worried about Trump's other trade policies such as exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and renegotiating NAFTA, Fricke said.
“Agriculture sometimes is at odds with some of the economy in our country, so we knew that we were going to have to pay some price. We just don't want to pay the whole price,” he said.
But he remains a Trump supporter — for now. Fricke said he’s hoping Trump will listen to farmers and find a solution before the trade fight, and farmers’ fortunes, get worse.
"I just emailed the president and all our representatives today about, you know, let's be careful how we think about doing this, because we were already in a difficult situation in agriculture right now. We don't need it to be worse,” he said.
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4:10

Lesotho wool, Mohair growers on the brink of losing their estimated revenue

Lesotho wool, Mohair growers on the brink of losing their estimated revenue

Lesotho wool, Mohair growers on the brink of losing their estimated revenue

Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling to brokers in South Africa for the past 44 years are now barred by new regulations from exporting their produce.
For more news, visit: sabcnews.com

3:09

As Farmers Harvest, Tariff Concerns Loom

As Farmers Harvest, Tariff Concerns Loom

As Farmers Harvest, Tariff Concerns Loom

Farmers in the American mid-west are working the fields this fall amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, once one of the largest importers of U.S. corn and soybeans. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, uncertainty looms over how it will ultimately affect farm income this year, as growers have yet to feel the full impact, or benefits, of the escalating trade dispute.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/4626920.html

0:58

Daily News - Garlic growers in the United States love the Chinese trade war

Daily News - Garlic growers in the United States love the Chinese trade war

Daily News - Garlic growers in the United States love the Chinese trade war

Marijuana Growers Diversify with Hemp and CBD

A marijuana surplus in Oregon has driven pot prices to record lows, and some nervous growers are pivoting to another type of cannabis. Pot farmers hope to cash in on cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive extract derived from hemp. (May 14)
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This greenhouse uses purple light to help plants grow healthier and faster.

published: 26 Oct 2018

How Trump's trade wars hurt US farmers

As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment.
In good years, cargo trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains are a sign of money rolling in.
Today, as tariffs from America’s largest foreign soybean market -- China -- threaten to upend the industry, many trains sit idle.
“There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.”
In conversations with more than 50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each of the five food groups, one trend was clear: Th...

published: 23 Oct 2018

Will California Weed Growers Survive Legal Marijuana? (HBO)

When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticide problem.
For years, pesticides used on black market and medical marijuana have affected water, wildlife, and consumer health. But until recently, the state had no way to prevent farmers from treating their crops with dangerous pesticides, fungicides or rodent killers. That’s all supposed to change with weed going legal, but growers, regulators and scientists say guaranteeing clean cannabis will be an uphill battle.
After a phase-in period of six months, which kicked off this week, any weed sold on California’s legal market has to test clean for residues of 66 pesticides — listed by the new Bureau of CannabisControl. Growers say...

published: 03 Jan 2018

Marijuana growers at odds with proposed laws

Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale producers are worried about being weeded out of the industry, unless Ottawa and its provincial counterparts change their approach to so-called micro-cultivation.
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Big News For Weed Growers

Warren Buffett is a billionaire -- and now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot. Big money getting into the business of weed could mean big things for the marijuana industry.
Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.
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published: 23 Sep 2014

Important News for Mange Growers

Trump’s Feud With China Is Already Hurting American Farmers (HBO)

Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in PresidentTrump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100U.S. goods — including soybeans, corn, and cotton — are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICENews the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many...

published: 17 Apr 2018

Lesotho wool, Mohair growers on the brink of losing their estimated revenue

Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling to brokers in South Africa for the past 44 years are now barred by new regulations from exporting their produce.
For more news, visit: sabcnews.com

published: 27 Sep 2018

As Farmers Harvest, Tariff Concerns Loom

Farmers in the American mid-west are working the fields this fall amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, once one of the largest importers of U.S. corn and soybeans. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, uncertainty looms over how it will ultimately affect farm income this year, as growers have yet to feel the full impact, or benefits, of the escalating trade dispute.
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published: 24 Oct 2018

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Marijuana Growers Diversify with Hemp and CBD

A marijuana surplus in Oregon has driven pot prices to record lows, and some nervous growers are pivoting to another type of cannabis. Pot farmers hope to cash in on cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive extract derived from hemp. (May 14)
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How Trump's trade wars hurt US farmers

As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increa...

As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment.
In good years, cargo trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains are a sign of money rolling in.
Today, as tariffs from America’s largest foreign soybean market -- China -- threaten to upend the industry, many trains sit idle.
“There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.”
In conversations with more than 50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each of the five food groups, one trend was clear: The once-deep ties to President Donald Trump have frayed over the past year. But they remain intact for a small majority of farmers CNN spoke with ahead of the critical 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, who see an opening with Trump’s trade war, will likely struggle to make inroads with these voters.
The President gives all of them plenty to complain about. They grumble about his tweeting -- that’s not their style -- and what his trade war has done to their bottom lines. But if the President’s re-election were held tomorrow, most of them would back him. They trust Trump, and many believe Democrats don’t understand or largely ignore their way of life.
Still, Trump’s deep support in rural America, which helped propel him to the White House in 2016, is being tested. The wheat farmers, soybean growers and pork producers confront a growing trade war that is forcing them to re-evaluate their ties to the President’s Republican Party and openly question whether his mantra to “Make America Great Again” came at the expense of voters like them.
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As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment.
In good years, cargo trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains are a sign of money rolling in.
Today, as tariffs from America’s largest foreign soybean market -- China -- threaten to upend the industry, many trains sit idle.
“There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.”
In conversations with more than 50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each of the five food groups, one trend was clear: The once-deep ties to President Donald Trump have frayed over the past year. But they remain intact for a small majority of farmers CNN spoke with ahead of the critical 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, who see an opening with Trump’s trade war, will likely struggle to make inroads with these voters.
The President gives all of them plenty to complain about. They grumble about his tweeting -- that’s not their style -- and what his trade war has done to their bottom lines. But if the President’s re-election were held tomorrow, most of them would back him. They trust Trump, and many believe Democrats don’t understand or largely ignore their way of life.
Still, Trump’s deep support in rural America, which helped propel him to the White House in 2016, is being tested. The wheat farmers, soybean growers and pork producers confront a growing trade war that is forcing them to re-evaluate their ties to the President’s Republican Party and openly question whether his mantra to “Make America Great Again” came at the expense of voters like them.
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Will California Weed Growers Survive Legal Marijuana? (HBO)

When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticid...

When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticide problem.
For years, pesticides used on black market and medical marijuana have affected water, wildlife, and consumer health. But until recently, the state had no way to prevent farmers from treating their crops with dangerous pesticides, fungicides or rodent killers. That’s all supposed to change with weed going legal, but growers, regulators and scientists say guaranteeing clean cannabis will be an uphill battle.
After a phase-in period of six months, which kicked off this week, any weed sold on California’s legal market has to test clean for residues of 66 pesticides — listed by the new Bureau of CannabisControl. Growers say they’re already being tested at such minute levels that even weed grown organically could fail these tests. One problem is pesticides that drift from farms, which don’t have to comply with the same strict rules.
“Other crops can use fungicides and pesticides. For weed, nothing is allowed because cannabis is still illegal under federal law,” Shawn Webber, a licensed grower in Sonoma County, told VICENews.
Scientists say regulators have forgotten to extend their strict standards to the labs themselves. “It’s zero tolerance for pesticides, but at what level,” said Reggie Gaudino, Chief Science Officer at Steep HillLabs, which offers cannabis testing in Berkeley, CA. “The regulations have no minimum standards for the machines that test the weed. People are going to shop around for the worst lab so they don’t fail.” And, as there aren’t enough labs to go around, product will spoil while it waits to be tested.
Growers who fail the tests or don’t want to invest in meeting the state’s rigorous standards, will likely return to black market. In other words, despite regulators’ best intentions, tainted weed won’t be off the menu just yet.
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When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticide problem.
For years, pesticides used on black market and medical marijuana have affected water, wildlife, and consumer health. But until recently, the state had no way to prevent farmers from treating their crops with dangerous pesticides, fungicides or rodent killers. That’s all supposed to change with weed going legal, but growers, regulators and scientists say guaranteeing clean cannabis will be an uphill battle.
After a phase-in period of six months, which kicked off this week, any weed sold on California’s legal market has to test clean for residues of 66 pesticides — listed by the new Bureau of CannabisControl. Growers say they’re already being tested at such minute levels that even weed grown organically could fail these tests. One problem is pesticides that drift from farms, which don’t have to comply with the same strict rules.
“Other crops can use fungicides and pesticides. For weed, nothing is allowed because cannabis is still illegal under federal law,” Shawn Webber, a licensed grower in Sonoma County, told VICENews.
Scientists say regulators have forgotten to extend their strict standards to the labs themselves. “It’s zero tolerance for pesticides, but at what level,” said Reggie Gaudino, Chief Science Officer at Steep HillLabs, which offers cannabis testing in Berkeley, CA. “The regulations have no minimum standards for the machines that test the weed. People are going to shop around for the worst lab so they don’t fail.” And, as there aren’t enough labs to go around, product will spoil while it waits to be tested.
Growers who fail the tests or don’t want to invest in meeting the state’s rigorous standards, will likely return to black market. In other words, despite regulators’ best intentions, tainted weed won’t be off the menu just yet.
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Marijuana growers at odds with proposed laws

Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale produce...

Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale producers are worried about being weeded out of the industry, unless Ottawa and its provincial counterparts change their approach to so-called micro-cultivation.
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Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale producers are worried about being weeded out of the industry, unless Ottawa and its provincial counterparts change their approach to so-called micro-cultivation.
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Warren Buffett is a billionaire -- and now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot. Big money getting into the business of weed could mean big things for the marijuana industry.
Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.
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Warren Buffett is a billionaire -- and now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot. Big money getting into the business of weed could mean big things for the marijuana industry.
Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.
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Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in PresidentTrump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100U.S. goods — including soybeans, corn, and cotton — are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICENews the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many dollars of loss that is going to be this fall," Fricke said, pointing to the field where he'll plant his soybean crop over the next month.
"We still have to plant [the soybeans], but we just know we’re not gonna come out ahead," Fricke said.
Beyond a threatened trade war with China, farmers have been worried about Trump's other trade policies such as exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and renegotiating NAFTA, Fricke said.
“Agriculture sometimes is at odds with some of the economy in our country, so we knew that we were going to have to pay some price. We just don't want to pay the whole price,” he said.
But he remains a Trump supporter — for now. Fricke said he’s hoping Trump will listen to farmers and find a solution before the trade fight, and farmers’ fortunes, get worse.
"I just emailed the president and all our representatives today about, you know, let's be careful how we think about doing this, because we were already in a difficult situation in agriculture right now. We don't need it to be worse,” he said.
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Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in PresidentTrump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100U.S. goods — including soybeans, corn, and cotton — are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICENews the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many dollars of loss that is going to be this fall," Fricke said, pointing to the field where he'll plant his soybean crop over the next month.
"We still have to plant [the soybeans], but we just know we’re not gonna come out ahead," Fricke said.
Beyond a threatened trade war with China, farmers have been worried about Trump's other trade policies such as exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and renegotiating NAFTA, Fricke said.
“Agriculture sometimes is at odds with some of the economy in our country, so we knew that we were going to have to pay some price. We just don't want to pay the whole price,” he said.
But he remains a Trump supporter — for now. Fricke said he’s hoping Trump will listen to farmers and find a solution before the trade fight, and farmers’ fortunes, get worse.
"I just emailed the president and all our representatives today about, you know, let's be careful how we think about doing this, because we were already in a difficult situation in agriculture right now. We don't need it to be worse,” he said.
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Lesotho wool, Mohair growers on the brink of losing their estimated revenue

Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling...

Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling to brokers in South Africa for the past 44 years are now barred by new regulations from exporting their produce.
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Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling to brokers in South Africa for the past 44 years are now barred by new regulations from exporting their produce.
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Farmers in the American mid-west are working the fields this fall amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, once one of the largest importers of U.S. corn and soybeans. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, uncertainty looms over how it will ultimately affect farm income this year, as growers have yet to feel the full impact, or benefits, of the escalating trade dispute.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/4626920.html

Farmers in the American mid-west are working the fields this fall amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, once one of the largest importers of U.S. corn and soybeans. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, uncertainty looms over how it will ultimately affect farm income this year, as growers have yet to feel the full impact, or benefits, of the escalating trade dispute.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/4626920.html

Marijuana Growers Diversify with Hemp and CBD

A marijuana surplus in Oregon has driven pot prices to record lows, and some nervous growers are pivoting to another type of cannabis. Pot farmers hope to cash ...

A marijuana surplus in Oregon has driven pot prices to record lows, and some nervous growers are pivoting to another type of cannabis. Pot farmers hope to cash in on cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive extract derived from hemp. (May 14)
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A marijuana surplus in Oregon has driven pot prices to record lows, and some nervous growers are pivoting to another type of cannabis. Pot farmers hope to cash in on cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive extract derived from hemp. (May 14)
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How Trump's trade wars hurt US farmers

As a result of PresidentDonald Trump's trade wars with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment.
In good years, cargo trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains are a sign of money rolling in.
Today, as tariffs from America’s largest foreign soybean market -- China -- threaten to upend the industry, many trains sit idle.
“There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.”
In conversations with more than 50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each of the five food groups, one trend was clear: The once-deep ties to President Donald Trump have frayed over the past year. But they remain intact for a small majority of farmers CNN spoke with ahead of the critical 2018 midterm elections. Democrats, who see an opening with Trump’s trade war, will likely struggle to make inroads with these voters.
The President gives all of them plenty to complain about. They grumble about his tweeting -- that’s not their style -- and what his trade war has done to their bottom lines. But if the President’s re-election were held tomorrow, most of them would back him. They trust Trump, and many believe Democrats don’t understand or largely ignore their way of life.
Still, Trump’s deep support in rural America, which helped propel him to the White House in 2016, is being tested. The wheat farmers, soybean growers and pork producers confront a growing trade war that is forcing them to re-evaluate their ties to the President’s Republican Party and openly question whether his mantra to “Make America Great Again” came at the expense of voters like them.
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Will California Weed Growers Survive Legal Marijuana? (HBO)

When California’s regulators scrambled to make rules for the state’s new legal market, one issue was near the top of their list: How to deal with pot’s pesticide problem.
For years, pesticides used on black market and medical marijuana have affected water, wildlife, and consumer health. But until recently, the state had no way to prevent farmers from treating their crops with dangerous pesticides, fungicides or rodent killers. That’s all supposed to change with weed going legal, but growers, regulators and scientists say guaranteeing clean cannabis will be an uphill battle.
After a phase-in period of six months, which kicked off this week, any weed sold on California’s legal market has to test clean for residues of 66 pesticides — listed by the new Bureau of CannabisControl. Growers say they’re already being tested at such minute levels that even weed grown organically could fail these tests. One problem is pesticides that drift from farms, which don’t have to comply with the same strict rules.
“Other crops can use fungicides and pesticides. For weed, nothing is allowed because cannabis is still illegal under federal law,” Shawn Webber, a licensed grower in Sonoma County, told VICENews.
Scientists say regulators have forgotten to extend their strict standards to the labs themselves. “It’s zero tolerance for pesticides, but at what level,” said Reggie Gaudino, Chief Science Officer at Steep HillLabs, which offers cannabis testing in Berkeley, CA. “The regulations have no minimum standards for the machines that test the weed. People are going to shop around for the worst lab so they don’t fail.” And, as there aren’t enough labs to go around, product will spoil while it waits to be tested.
Growers who fail the tests or don’t want to invest in meeting the state’s rigorous standards, will likely return to black market. In other words, despite regulators’ best intentions, tainted weed won’t be off the menu just yet.
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Marijuana growers at odds with proposed laws

Marijuana growers who have already established businesses in their communities are at odds with the federal government's proposed laws. Many small-scale producers are worried about being weeded out of the industry, unless Ottawa and its provincial counterparts change their approach to so-called micro-cultivation.
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Big News For Weed Growers

Warren Buffett is a billionaire -- and now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot. Big money getting into the business of weed could mean big things for the marijuana industry.
Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.
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Trump’s Feud With China Is Already Hurting American Farmers (HBO)

Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in PresidentTrump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100U.S. goods — including soybeans, corn, and cotton — are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICENews the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many dollars of loss that is going to be this fall," Fricke said, pointing to the field where he'll plant his soybean crop over the next month.
"We still have to plant [the soybeans], but we just know we’re not gonna come out ahead," Fricke said.
Beyond a threatened trade war with China, farmers have been worried about Trump's other trade policies such as exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and renegotiating NAFTA, Fricke said.
“Agriculture sometimes is at odds with some of the economy in our country, so we knew that we were going to have to pay some price. We just don't want to pay the whole price,” he said.
But he remains a Trump supporter — for now. Fricke said he’s hoping Trump will listen to farmers and find a solution before the trade fight, and farmers’ fortunes, get worse.
"I just emailed the president and all our representatives today about, you know, let's be careful how we think about doing this, because we were already in a difficult situation in agriculture right now. We don't need it to be worse,” he said.
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Lesotho wool, Mohair growers on the brink of losing their estimated revenue

Lesotho wool and Mohair growers are on the brink of losing their 2018 revenue estimated at more than half a billion rand.
The producers - who have been selling to brokers in South Africa for the past 44 years are now barred by new regulations from exporting their produce.
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As Farmers Harvest, Tariff Concerns Loom

Farmers in the American mid-west are working the fields this fall amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, once one of the largest importers of U.S. corn and soybeans. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, uncertainty looms over how it will ultimately affect farm income this year, as growers have yet to feel the full impact, or benefits, of the escalating trade dispute.
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Marijuana Growers Diversify with Hemp and CBD

A marijuana surplus in Oregon has driven pot prices to record lows, and some nervous growers are pivoting to another type of cannabis. Pot farmers hope to cash in on cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive extract derived from hemp. (May 14)
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The National Sports Daily

The National Sports Daily, simply referred to as The National, was a sports-centered newspaper published in the United States beginning on January 31, 1990. The newspaper was based in New York City, was printed tabloid format,
and was published five days a week.

The National was an American attempt to emulate the model of several international all-sports publications, such as La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy), L'Equipe (France), and others. The paper was founded by Mexican-American media mogul Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, who had owned Mexican television conglomerate Televisa and whose family had founded Univision. Azcárraga was also the chief financier for the paper and used the success of the international sports papers as his inspiration for founding The National.